CVE-2013-4419

The guestfish command in libguestfs 1.20.12, 1.22.7, and earlier, when using the --remote or --listen option, does not properly check the ownership of /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ when creating a temporary socket file in this directory, which allows local users to write to the socket and execute arbitrary commands by creating /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ in advance.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-11-05

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Libguestfs (Libguestfs)
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server (Novell)
• Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit (Suse)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00001.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1536.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55813
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016960
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-October/msg00031.html